Childrens Community Nurse

As a Childrens Community Nurse, you will play a key role in

helping children and young people receive specialist, high-quality care.

Working closely with children and their families, you will assess individual

health needs and plan and deliver evidence-based care. You will support

children with complex, acute, chronic, life-limiting or additional health needs

across homes, schools and community clinics. The role will involve tracheostomy

care, non-invasive ventilation, intravenous and subcutaneous medication, port

flushing and central line care, enteral feeding, and safe airway management,

including suctioning and administering nebulised medication as well as acute

nursing skills. You will also facilitate timely hospital discharge, working

with the wider multidisciplinary team, and build the confidence of parents,

carers and school staff through practical clinical training and support.

work within the Childrens Community Nursing Service, delivering high quality,

evidence-based nursing care for children and young people with life limiting

and life threatening conditions and supporting children and young people with short-

and long-term conditions.

identify the health needs of children to be nursed in the community and work in

liaison with multi-agency partners to promote collaboration and effective

communication.

work across the Childrens Community Nursing Service developing skills in

complex, acute and long-term conditions care.

Full Job Description attached.

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

Relationships

Essential: - If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.

Experience

Essential: - Post registration experience; - Able to effectively supervise/support fellow team members and student nurses.

Desirable: - Use skills to teach/develop fellow team members, student nurses, parent/carers and education staff; - Able to undertake Practice Assessor / Supervisor role.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential: - Relevant experience working in a healthcare setting with children and their families, with complex health needs / acute health needs

Desirable: - IT skills.; - Teaching, audit and evaluation skills.; - Caring for children within a community setting.; - Completion of an Intravenous therapy course

Qualifications

Essential: - 1st level Registration RSCN/RN Child; - To possess or be willing to complete the Paediatric Clinical Examination and Minor illness module.

Desirable: - Post Reg education.; - To possess or willing to work towards BSc in Community Childrens Nursing.

Job Specific Requirements

Essential: - The ability to travel independently across the trust; - The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs

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